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New comment by ramijames in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ramijames — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:25:37 +0000

I've always played the game that tests are only as useful as you have resources to attribute to them. Mostly all modern development is a compromise between new features and stuff that supports those new features (tests included, but also reviews, code maintenance, docs, etc.).

If LLMs can be utilized to quickly make deep testing possible, I think that's probably a net-positive.

New comment by ramijames in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ramijames — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:38:09 +0000

I'm curious. Do you attribute this to weak and/or incomplete tests? How granular should tests be to have complete coverage so that an AI won't create a converted codebase that "passes tests" but is still functionally inaccurate?

New comment by ramijames in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

ramijames — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:41:45 +0000

And configuring a bot for Telegram is incredibly easy.

New comment by ramijames in "GPT-5.6"

ramijames — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:19:11 +0000

Sounds like you are working on something naughty :)

New comment by ramijames in "GPT-5.6"

ramijames — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:08:01 +0000

What about cost?

New comment by ramijames in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

ramijames — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:03:28 +0000

We read to them from a very young age, and kept doing it. They are 13, 11, and 7 now and we still read books together every night for the littlest one, and most nights for the older two. My wife loves doing it and finds that it is solid bonding time.

We also instilled in them that it's a good thing for people to do on their own, and have slowly been providing them guidance on what "good literature" is by providing a constant stream of recommendations. We let them choose whatever they want, of course, and don't for anything on them. They are in total control.

Beyond that, we've taught them that the library is a nice place to just hang out. It's quiet, safe, and theirs as much as anybody else's. We are stuck living in a tiny apartment in a city in the US, and for them being able to just go to the library and have time to themselves is a positive for everyone.

Lastly, we've tried to give them a sense that language itself is fun and beautiful. Lots of word games. Lots of learning weird, esoteric words that nobody else seems to know. They get a kick out of it and so do we.

New comment by ramijames in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

ramijames — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:06:08 +0000

My kids are active, voracious readers. At least one book (500-700 pages) a week. It feels like one of the only things that I've really done right as a parent.

New comment by ramijames in "Resetting Xbox"

ramijames — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:46:28 +0000

It's not just appetite. The market is crazy right now and people don't have money to drop $600-800 on a new console.

New comment by ramijames in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

ramijames — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:08:55 +0000

I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the answer and the trip down memory lane.

New comment by ramijames in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

ramijames — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:31:06 +0000

I miss the Amiga.

New comment by ramijames in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

ramijames — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:30:37 +0000

So what am I remembering that A/UX needed to boot from ROM?

New comment by ramijames in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

ramijames — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:38:42 +0000

If I remember correctly, there's an interesting historical reason for this: a lot of the original functionality that we'd today consider "part of the OS" was actually in ROM on hardware in really old Macs. Mouse functionality, basic windowing, etc. This meant that to get A/UX running you first had to bootstrap into a light version of Mac OS and then boot into A/UX.

New comment by ramijames in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

ramijames — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:37:28 +0000

I eventually stopped. For the longest time I used CMD+S as a "thinking tool" and would just tap it.

New comment by ramijames in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

ramijames — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:18:55 +0000

And you don't have to compulsively save anymore! Autosave is everywhere!

New comment by ramijames in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

ramijames — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:25:52 +0000

You and I both know that capitalism values corporations over individuals.

New comment by ramijames in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

ramijames — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:36:54 +0000

I'm torn between "this was so bad, there's no way that they can forget" and "god, there's just enough time for just enough people to forget". I hate this.

New comment by ramijames in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

ramijames — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:52:21 +0000

I love these types of threads the most. I learn so much.

New comment by ramijames in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

ramijames — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:28:30 +0000

I didn't even bother adding them to miserablyunemployed.com. I asked a bunch of our users and zero said they wanted them. I built other stuff instead.

New comment by ramijames in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

ramijames — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:04:39 +0000

Not using adware seems like a big upgrade to me.

New comment by ramijames in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

ramijames — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:53:16 +0000

Use Firefox. It's an excellent browser and needs your support.